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W. E. STEVENS.

\BLIND HINGE.

PatntedIeb. 4, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLARD E. STEVENS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANLEY WVORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

BLIND-HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,970, dated February 4, 1896,

Application filed October 2d, 1895. Serial No. 566,698. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLARD E. STEVENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blind or Shutter Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in 1 o blind or shutter hinges, and the main object of my improvement is to make the hinge readily reversible for right or left hand.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of myhinge. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view with the leaves in the position that they have when the blind is thrown open. Fig. at is a front elevation of my hinge with the leaves placed the other side up to make a diiferent-handed hin ge from that shown in the preceding figures.

A designates the leaf which is designed to be secured to the blind or shutter. The body 5 of said leaf is provided with screw-holes 6 for securing the same upon the blind. Said 2 5 leaf is also provided with an offset '7 and vertical wing 8, the upper and lower edges of which are slotted to form the shoulder 9 and pintle 10 at each end of the hinge.

The leaf B has a horizontal wing 11, with a semicircular front edge 12, slots 13 and 14, and a pintle-receiving perforation 15 into which the slot 14 opens,as best shown in Fig. 2. Said leaf B comprises two half-leaf bodies 16 which project above and below the horizontal wing 3 5 11 so as to stand diagonally opposite each other. They are provided with screw-holes 17 for securing the leaf B in place. These half-leaf bodies are formed by slitting the leaf-blank and bending the slit portions in opposite directions so as to stand at right angles to the wing 11 and diagonally opposite each other, whereby there is a blank space directly above and below the respective halfleaf bodies, as shown.-

The upper end of the blind or shutter may be hung on any ordinary hinge.

The leaf A, as shown, is suitable for both the u er and lower hinges on each blind or shutter, and the companion leaf for the upper hinge may be the same as the leaf B, except that it is simply perforated with a round hole to receive the pintle, omitting the slots 13 and 14.

The hinge-leaves may be used either side up. hen used at the right-hand vertical edge of a blind or shutter they will be placed as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the line 18 in Fig. 1 designating the meeting vertical edges of the blind and easing or frame to which the hinge may be applied, the shutter or blind being on the left of said line and the casing on the right. hen used at the left-hand vertical edge of the blind or shutter both leaves are placed the other side up, as shown in Fig. 4:, in which the line 19 designates the meeting edges of the blind and easing, the blind being on the right of said line and the casing on the left.

The hinge is of the class in which the blind or shutter is locked in its open position by a lateral movement on the axis of the hinge. The semicircular edge 12, shoulder 9 and pintle 10 in the perforation 14c properly center or guide the blind in its swinging movement until the blind is fully open, when the weight of the blind will throw the shoulder 9 and flat 7 5 pintle 10 into the slots 13 and 14, as shown in Fig. 3 and as in ordinary hinges of this class. It is evident that all the advantages of the reversible leaves would be attained if the lateral locking feature is omiited.

By my improvement I provide a simple and convenient hinge which may be made from sheet metal at a small cost and which can be used for either right or left hand, as desired, according to which end uppermost the leaves are secured in place.

I claim as my invention- 1. A pair of hinge-leaves one of which has a perforated pintle-receiving wing and the other leaf of which is provided with a body 0 5, offset 7 extending from one of the vertical side edges of said body, vertical wing S at the outer edge of said offset, and the pintlcs 10, one at each end of said vertical win g, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

2. The herein-described hinge consisting of in place either end uppermost, substantially the leaf A having pintles 10 at its upper and as described and for the purpose specified. lower edges, and the leaf B having horizontal pintle-receiving wing and the half-leaf l 5 bodies extended in opposite directions from said Wing and standing diagonally to each other, said leaves being adapted for securing WILLARD E. STEVENS.

Witnesses:

"lnos. CORSCADEN, MARRIE E. TIcKNoR. 

